Niall Ferguson, Columnist

From Deepfakes to Arms Races, AI Politics Is Here

Large language models are only going to get more devious, and it’s unlikely that any sort of regulation can rein in the machines.

April 7, 2024 at 4:00 AM UTC

By Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author, most recently, of “Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe.” He is a columnist for The Free Press.

Giddy-up, @sama.
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Two weeks ago, I asked and attempted to answer six questions about the economic and financial consequences of the artificial intelligence revolution. Today, I have even more — eight — political and geopolitical questions. They are harder to answer.

1. Will AI have an adverse impact on the 2024 election?